Abstract:
Antarctic soils have been investigated in the Ross Sea Region for 50 years. The cumulative studies have resulted in a large literature base of knowledge on various subjects on the soils from various areas throughout the Ross Sea Region. Studies have included soil surveys and profile investigations into soil temperature and moisture measurements, soil chemistry analysis, salt deposits and origin ... of salts in soils, moraine studies, the history of glaciation through soil studies, degree of weathering on the soils, examination of permafrost properties and the effects of climate change on permafrost and soil properties and waterloss and the effects of human disturbance and contamination on soils. Soil samples are catalogued and stored in the Ross Sea Region Soils Database, held by Landcare Research, New Zealand, and at the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS), New Zealand.

Description:
The Ross Sea Region Soils database, run by Landcare Research, New Zealand, stores information on soil site and soil pit horizon data from 35 years of soil studies by the investigators and their associates. There are >900 sites in the database but they are currently not sorted.

Claridge GGC, Campbell IB 1974. Presence of halloysite as an indication of volcanic ash in the McMurdo Sound Region, Antarctica. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 17: 579-85.

Claridge GGC, Campbell IB 1974. The relationship of Antarctic soils and weathering processes to the glacial history of Antarctica. Transactions of the 10th International Congress of Soil Science VI(II): 372-9.

Campbell IB, Balks MR, Claridge GGC 1993. A simple visual technique for estimating the effects of fieldwork on the terrestrial environment in ice-free area of Antarctica. Polar Record 29 (171): 321-328.

Campbell IB, Claridge GGC 1995. The persistence of human impact in ice-free areas of Antarctica. Abstracts of New Zealand Activities in Antarctica 1994/95. Antarctic Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington.

Claridge GGC, Campbell IB 2007. The “Golden Shale”: an indicator of coastal stability for Marble Point, McMurdo Sound over the last four million years. 10th International Symposium on Antarctic Earth Sciences.

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Campbell IB, Claridge GGC 2008. Soil and permafrost properties in the vicinity of Scott Base, Antarctica. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Permafrost, University of Alaska, Fairbanks. 2008.221-226.

Claridge, G.G.C. Campbell, I.B. 2007 USGS Open-File Report 2007-1047, Short research paper 087 DOI: 10.3133/of2007-1047.srp087 The "Golden Shale": An indicator of coastal stability for Marble Point, McMurdo Sound, over the last four million years. Antarctica: A Keystone in a Changing World – Online Proceedings of the 10th ISAES X. Cooper, A.K., Campbell, I.D.eds, Washington DC US Geological Survey